stop everything you're doing right now I
don't care how important it is I have
news that'll blow it out of the water
and trust me you're going to want to get
this sitting down so if you're in the
operating room watching this it's time
to put down the scalpel and pay
attention YouTube has just made a
massive change to the platform and in
standard YouTube fashion has done a
horrible job at communicating it to the
community so it's up to me Ace reporter
Charles here to tackle this topic from
the front lines just riding through like
Paul Revere lighting the lanterns
letting you all know that another awful
set of changes are coming to YouTube
that have already overnight tanked some
creators source of income from their
channels to monetize like half of their
videos with no explanation and more
channels are soon to follow as this
continues to roll out and I'll let it be
known right away here that yes my
channel has been hit extremely hard by
this new Shadow policy that they've slid
into the equation here the policy is if
you say any swear word or anything less
than Prime upper in the first eight
seconds of a video you instantly get
demonetized for it no matter what there
is no wiggle room if you say anything
that's not squeaky clean Weenie Hut
Junior and you let that rip in the first
8 to 15 seconds of that video well
you're just getting blasted and there's
nothing you can do about it now to a lot
of you hearing that's probably not
surprising because the previous policy
that all YouTubers were playing ball
with was the first 30 seconds you
couldn't say [ __ ] you couldn't say
anything super hard like [ __ ] because if
you did you'd likely get demonetized but
now it applies to the first eight
seconds and all profanity is being
treated equally except for a couple of
exceptions like hell and damn I guess
maybe even ass you might be able to
squeeze a little ass in there in the
beginning I suppose if the YouTube
Illuminati is feeling generous with
their policy enforcement that day now
while that's all pretty clear about just
not using any profanity whatsoever in
the first eight seconds it gets a little
muddy when it starts talking about a
focal usage of profanity throughout the
video video it says such as a mention in
every sentence but that's not exactly
how they enforce it for a lot of the
videos that have been demonetized at
least on my side it's not like I'm going
around hitting them with like Saints
Road dialogue it's just very confusing
what's actually triggering this new
demonetization wave that's sweeping
through like a plague for example RT
game again isn't exactly a Creator known
for like intense swearing and getting
out of control and unhinged and saying
profanity in every sentence like this
policy here and yet so many of his
videos just got demonetized and he's
also not someone that does a whole lot
of cursing and swearing like a sailor in
the first like minute of his videos
either so it doesn't really make a whole
lot of sense it's not as clear as these
rules seem to think that it is also this
rule applies retroactively to every
piece of content ever made even as far
back as like 2007 so like half of my
catalog of videos is now demonetized
this happened to a ton of creators and
because it's a new policy yet every old
video ever made now has to play by those
rules so it ended up with so much being
demonetized but it's very vague when it
comes to the enforcement here let me
give you just two quick examples from
two new videos I made both of these were
monetized as of 12 hours ago so this
first one is just called Good News it is
legitimately just going over very
wholesome topics the focal point is not
on swearing you know it's not a potty
mouth kind of video it's just going over
wholesome topics but in the intro I said
[ __ ] pretty early this week's been
pretty Doom and Gloom with a lot of
awful [ __ ] coming to light all across
the internet so me saying [ __ ] here is
clearly what triggered the
demonetization flag okay A little
upsetting but they've now made these
rules clear and they're retroactive so I
get it but here's an example of one that
makes no sense at all by their new rules
this is me talking about God slap issue
2 being out don't worry I'm here now I
know for the last few months you've been
cold and Afraid the uncertainty eating
away at you wondering what comes next
well I'm here to show you what comes
next it's issue two of God slap baby I
probably don't need to explain what God
slap is you already know it's our comic
book series that's become more popular
than the Bible there's no profanity at
all not even low level profanity I don't
mention ass or butt or anything like
that at all I'm just talking about
godslapping getting excited it's a comic
book series we've worked on for a long
time and I made this video just going
over everything and letting you all know
that it's available at godslapbook.com
this wasn't supposed to be an ad for it
but it's a great example here because
there is no profanity used throughout
this video until 5 minutes and 37
seconds into it after giving a plot
summary for issue one
surrounding cell finishing them off with
more finger flicks which blow their
[ __ ] head off they share a brief
conversation so what could have possibly
triggered this demonetization is it
using profanity at all that's going to
result in the monetization because
that'd be very concerning if so the best
guess I can muster is they must have
been really upset about the animation
because we had an animation made for
issue 2 and it's a pretty gory animation
so it comes in at around a minute into
the video and there is some animated
Gore and violence but that's a minute
into it and again that's not the focus
of it and I wouldn't I wouldn't think
anyone would be like Disturbed or
shocked by the content it's not anything
that's you know egregious or over the
top it's just violence in a comic book
in animated format so would that really
now result in demonetization for any
channel that has anything that's even
close to this level of violence because
that's really strict like what you see
there is something you'd find in like
any in rated or even t-rated games
sometimes like it's not that extreme
like I don't see why that would warrant
being demonetized but it is a bit scary
because this has all happened overnight
with no explanation and it's not just
you know bad words and things like that
this applies to so much other [ __ ] that
they're now enforcing heavily but it's
not just forget getting a little wacky
with your language and videos that'll
result in the monetization now if you're
getting a little wacky with your game
choice if you're a gaming YouTuber you
can get demonetized for it and even age
restricted in some cases if you're
playing a game that's kind of violent
you very are you're very likely to get
demonetized before it and if there's bad
language in that game especially early
on in the video you make covering that
game you're likely to be demonetized for
it and in fact Callisto protocol is the
most recent example you can get age
restricted for it too Callisto protocol
was deemed too gory it's too much oh
this is very uh very Unholy stuff we're
seeing here so anyone that made videos
on Callisto protocol got age restricted
for it including me a couple of them I
know slid onto the radar but for the
most part anything that had Callisto
protocol did get age restricted which is
almost poetic because you might remember
that Callisto protocol is inspired by
dead space and Dead Space 2 at the worst
marketing campaign of all time called
your mom hates dead space and is all
about how offended mothers were getting
at Dead Space it was very silly but now
it's like become reality for YouTube
YouTube is now that Dead Space mom when
it comes to violent video games it's
pretty pathetic but what's the saddest
part about this whole situation is
YouTube's refusal to be transparent with
this and make it clear that these policy
changes are coming I had to find out as
did everyone else after being hit by it
and then doing digging because anytime
there's a policy change YouTube treats
it like a government secret like the
Krabby Patty secret formula they just
refuse to share it so I had to learn by
searching around online talking to other
creators as well as talking directly to
YouTube in order to get answers for what
was going on and even my YouTube contact
wasn't aware of this until I brought it
up and he did digging on his end and
that's that is absolutely not any fault
of his own that just goes to show you
how split YouTube is internally where
things just aren't communicated
effectively even on the inside so how
the [ __ ] can they possibly manage to
inform the community I guess it is so so
laughable this policy is a game changer
for a lot of channels you have to
completely alter your content strategy
depending on like what you do like if
you play like a certain game that could
now be deemed a little too violent for
ads like this is something that changes
a lot for many creators and you have to
find out by going through [ __ ]
Twitter and then talking to people and
Whispers on Discord in order to figure
out what was happening that is so
pathetic that YouTube's repeated
inability to communicate even their
biggest changes to the platform it just
makes no sense it just can't be that
hard to put out clear documents letting
people know what's around the corner and
an estimated arrival date I don't see
what makes that so difficult and why
they struggle so greatly with it there
was one article I found about this in
early December but of course there was
no like set time frame for when this
would actually launch or if it was even
really going to launch for sure because
all of those things are written so
vaguely you never really know what's
going to come to the platform and what's
not going to like it's just so
frustrating to have them constantly make
these awful choices without ever
Consulting creators or users of the
platform obviously but also just not
telling them either unfortunately it's
all just another common YouTube L here I
had to unmask the Scooby-Doo villain and
per usual it was YouTube so if you're
just now figuring this out and wondering
why your channel got demonetized over
the last 24 hours I'm sorry I had to be
the one to [ __ ] out this bad news onto
your plate would have been a lot more
palatable if it came from YouTube's
mouth as opposed to my ass but is what
it is I am very very convinced they will
never actually communicate policy
changes ever at least not in any
effective manner so you'll just always
have to wonder when the next big policy
change is coming to [ __ ] you in the
mouth so that that's a pretty fun thing
to think about when making content on
YouTube and uh yeah just wanted to give
everyone the little update here since
YouTube didn't that's about it see ya